Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-06-30
TERRITORIAL NEWS

At Mitchell, four prisoners escaped
from jail by saving the bars OF tneir
cell and OF an outside window.
DAKOTA pensions: J. H. Farley, Rap
id CITY: increased, P. Boyden, Brook
ings; r. J. Mills, Sioux Falls.
The Omaha announces the compile
ton of the Sioux Falls line from
Salem to Mitchell, and that it is open
for passenger traffic. All trains now
running between W~orthington and
Sioux Falls will be continued, and IN
addition a new train will leave Mitch.
ell at 7:3O d. m. for st. Paul, m
returning arrive at Mitchell at $40
o. m.
Judge Mcconnell, at Fargo, decides
that assessors returns cannot be re-
duced by county commissioners.
The regents at Grand Forks receiv-
ed a bid from a responsible party to
put the university OF North Dakota
in as good shape as it was before the
st orm for $4,000.
The organization OF the Southwest
ern telegraph company was perfected
at Yankton. Eastern capitalists are
heavily interested. The intention oil
the company is to cover Omaha asits
southern connection with lines ex-
tending through southern and central
Dakota and western Iowa with lines
to Minneapolis. st. Paul and Duluth.
The board OF members and direc-
tors OF Southern Dakota university,
now in session there, have elected the
following directors: Hon. A. J. Edger-
ton, Mitchell. chairman; E. b. Bracy,
Mitchell; Rev. A. w. Atkinson, Hur.
on; E. S. Ormsby, Emmetsburg; Rev.
William Fielder, Huron; Rev. III. ID.
Haveller, Watertown; Rev. Q. ID.
Sprout, Alexandria; Rev. l.. Brad
ford, Rev. C. b. Clark, Mitch
ell. The new board on organi-
cation stands with A. j. Edgerton as
president, Rev. G. b. Clark secretary,
and r. N. Kratz treasurer.
George Gibbon, alaborer, was struck
by lightning and killed near Faulkton.
Father o. Zardetti, professor ofdog-
matte theology at st. Francis semi
nary, Wisconsin has been appointed
vicar general of Dakota, under Bish-
OPP Martin Marty, with headquarters
at Yankton.
A farmer named Hanson, living near
Frankfort, was struck by lightning
and killed.
Minoti is to have a "gloriousfourth
with 800 Indians to participate.
In attempting to leap from a box
car to the tender, A. N. PARCEL, a
Northern Pacific brakeman, aged
twenty-five, fell to the track and was
run over near Spiritwood and killed.
The train reached jamestown before
he was missed.
Another heavy rainfall descended on
Dakota on the goth, extending from
Salem on the southeast to Ludden on
the north above Columbia, and from
Pierre on the west to Brookings on
the east.
Dakota continues to grow with
great r~apidity. 1t has a number oi
excellent colleges and a good school
system employing more than 5000
teachers. This is double the number
oil teachers in New Hampshire and
New Jersey, and half as many as are
employed in Massachusetts,. Thirteen
states in the Union maintain fewer
schools than Dakota. In the mum.
Der of its banks Dakota leads twenty.
five states of the Union, and in many
other ways shows that it is destined
to become n of the greatest states
Of the Union.
At Ipswich, the Mortgage, Bank and
Investment company has been incor.
porated with $500, 600 capital. the
stock is being taken by eastern CAPT
talists.
The depot of the Chicago & North.
western Railway company at Pierre,
caught fire and, with two car loads oil
freight, burned. Part of Youmans
Bros. & Hodgins' lumber yard was
ALSO destroyed
Redfeld was selected as the place oil
the next meeting of the Dakota Medi
cal Society which will be held the
third Thursday of June, 1858. Drs.
Moody, Van Velson and Buchanan
we're appointed censors for the year.
Bids for the location of the next
Southern Dakota fair were received
from Yankton. Huron and Sioux Falls
OF $4,000 each. Huron secured the
location by votes of herself, Pierre,
De Smet, Miller, Sioux Falls, 81, while
Yankton received, besides her owu
votes, those of Mitchell, Aberdeen.
Parker, Scotland, Kimball and Cham.
berlain.
Hon. Alex Griggs, Abe Boynton and
n. c. Smith, Dakota railroad com.
missiouers, have located a station on
the Milwaukee road between Andoyer
and Langford, where farmers com.
planned the distance was too far be.
tween stations.
The Dakota Medical association ell.
elected DIR. ID. f. Etter of Yankton pres.
ident and DIR. III. E. McNutt of Aber,
deem secretary. Papers were read by
DIR. Morgsa.
There is considerable excitement at
Aberdeen over the attempted burning
OF the Sherman house, the largest ho-
tel in the city.
Another strong effort will bs made
to secure the opening of the Sioux res
ervation by the next congress. Alarge
meeting vas held in Pierre and a plan
of action adopted that will most Ger.
tainly be felt in Washington when con
gress convenes.
1t is announced az Fargo, that the
Catholic see of Dakotais to be divided
and a vicar general appointed for the
territory, with a bishop for North
Dakota.
Hon. George A. Cory, of Cory, Wal.
rath county, lately appointed by
Gov. Church commissioner for Dako.
ia to the American exposition in Lon
don, has left Aberdeen for Europe.
The grand lodge of the Knights OF
Pythias in session at Watertown, ad.
lourned to meet at Wahpcton the
third Tuesday of June, ISt,5. The
newly elected officers arc: N. E.
Gates, Kimball, G. c.; W. R. Arnold,
WATERFOWL, G. V. c.; Z. W. Murray,
Redfeld, G. P.;J B. Wineman, Grand
Forks, G. X. OF h. and S.; A. f..
Phillips, Sioux Falls, G. NJ. OF E.; ].
p. Cutting, Miller, G. !. G.; j. HI. Bot.
tam, Faulkton, G. o. &C. J. Cornell,